Ducks' APR report card

The NCAA, which released its Academic Progress Rate (APR) data Wednesday, did not penalize the University of Oregon in any sport, and it gave one Ducks athletic program - women's golf - a public recognition award.

The Ducks' football team, which had been in danger of incurring penalties after an APR of 921 last year, scored a 935 in the new figures, which combine the past four years through 2007-08.

That score is slightly below the national average of 939 (and 941 for Football Bowl Subdivision programs). Anything below 925 can draw NCAA sanctions.

To compile the APR, each athlete gets one point for staying academically eligible and one point for staying in school. All points are added up for each team and divided by the total possible points (decimal points are dropped).

Oregon's men's basketball program scored 975 for the second consecutive year. A year ago, the NCAA publicly recognized coach Ernie Kent's program after its APR was in the top 10 percent in the nation - the only men's basketball program in the Pacific-10 Conference so recognized.

This time, the 975 didn't quite make it into the top 10 percent, due to a jump in APR nationally from 928 to 933. It did, though, put the Ducks atop the Pac-10 again, ahead of Stanford and UCLA (968 each).

Oregon fired its women's golf coach, Shannon Rouillard, last November. That program received a perfect APR score of 1,000 last year, too - meaning all golfers over a four-year period remained eligible and graduated.

The NCAA has identified three problem sports - football, men's basketball and baseball - because of low APR scores. Oregon, which brought its baseball program back this season after a 26-year hiatus, does not have an APR score in baseball.